Piano handbook

Piano handbook is as follows:

1, the piano (Italian: pianoforte) is a keyboard instrument in Western classical music, the "king of musical instruments," known as. By 88 keys (52 white keys, 36 black keys) and metal strings soundboard. The Italian Bartolomeo Christofori (1655-1731) invented the piano in 1709.

2, 88-key piano range from A0 (27.5Hz) to C8 (4186.01Hz), 108-key is the highest to B8 (7902.13Hz), almost all of the music system in the music of the entire range of notes, is in addition to the pipe organ is the most extensive range of musical instruments. The piano is commonly used for solo, repertory and accompaniment performances.

3, the piano is called Piano, its full name should be called Pianoforte, meaning weak and strong. As this instrument can send out both weak and strong sounds, to have such an extremely image of the name. Later, perhaps for the convenience of the name, people will express the strong sound of forte omitted, only retained to express the weak sound of piano, and used to this day.

4, the Chinese translation of the piano, some foreign businessmen see China's market potential, a large number of pianos exported to China, and claimed that it is made of "steel" piano, so the people began to habitually call it "piano".